If you wanted a one sentence summary of tonight’s game, it’s this — one team had Cade Cunningham and the other one didn’t. If you want a deeper dive, there’s a reason that the Detroit Pistons have the best record in the Eastern Conference.
The Pistons run through a top 5 player, another young talent and a whole bunch of guys who know their roles and fill in adequately. Oh, and they’re also WELL coached. They’re everything you hope the Hornets end up developing into.
Oh, and the Hornets have an attention to detail problem too. The Pistons sort of exposed it tonight. Whenever Cade wasn’t getting whatever he wanted, the breakdowns would lead to wide open threes. And this wasn’t just the younger players making these breakdowns.